Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...membership organization, in any voluntary association--including any union--it is the members who vote. In internal union matters, it would be irresponsible toward our members and perhaps even illegal to allow non-members to vote. The single most important fact is that we are entirely earnest in our desires to offer membership to every employee who desires...
...lost five of the past six presidential elections. In Peanuts there is a running joke that every time Charlie Brown races forward to kick a football, Lucy grabs it away at the last second and he takes a pratfall. The humor, of course, lies in Charlie Brown's earnest belief that despite the implacable evidence of history, this time will somehow be different, and the pigskin will finally go sailing through the uprights...
EVEN before President-elect George Bush takes the oath of office next January, the campaign to succeed Gov. Michael S. Dukakis as Bush's Democratic challenger will have begun in earnest. In the upcoming four-year campaign for the 1992 nomination, the Democrats can look forward to more internecine squabbling and ideological blood-letting. Scarcely a week after the election, the battle lines are already drawn...
...Party needs to move left, not right. The heir-apparent to the Democratic nomination in 1992 is now Jesse Jackson, who refuses to hide his liberalism. In a radio interview last week, Jackson proclaimed that if Bush were to win the election, the next political season would begin in earnest the following morning...
...will automate operations is in place, and the shaft will soon start to turn again. A few last-minute tasks remain. Engineers bend over diagrams of the wiring circuits as they test connections in the mazes of wires that fill the control cabinets. The start-up countdown begins in earnest. Engineers watch the gauges as the needles begin to move. An exacting series of 14 conditions must be met before the computer will allow operation to start. When the computer is satisfied, the green prestart light goes on, the master control switch is turned to start, and the gates that...